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In obsolete terms the difference between review and opinion

is that review is to retrace; to go over again while opinion is obstinacy in holding to one's belief or impression; opiniativeness; conceitedness.

As nouns the difference between review and opinion

is that review is a second or subsequent reading of a text or artifact while opinion is a belief that a person has formed about a topic or issue.

As verbs the difference between review and opinion

is that review is to survey; to look broadly over while opinion is to have or express as an opinion.

review

English

(wikipedia review)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A second or subsequent reading of a text or artifact.
  • I need to make a review of the book before I can understand it.
  • An account intended as a critical evaluation of a text or a piece of work.
  • The newspaper review was full of praise for the play.
  • (legal) A judicial reassessment of a case or an event.
  • The victims demanded a full judical review of the case.
  • A stage show made up of sketches etc.
  • The Cambridge Footlights Review launched many Monty Python faces.
  • A survey of the available items or material.
  • The magazine contained a review of Paris restaurants.
  • A periodical which makes a survey of the arts or some other field.
  • The Times Literary Review is published in London.
  • A military inspection or display for the benefit of superiors or VIPs.
  • The troops assembled for a review by the Queen.
  • A forensic inspection to assess compliance with regulations or some code.
  • The regulators demanded a review against NYSE practices.

    Derived terms

    * * judicial review

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To survey; to look broadly over.
  • Before I tackle the question directly, I must briefly review historical approaches to the problem.
  • To write a critical evaluation of a new art work etc.; to write a review.
  • The critic reviews every new play in London.
  • * '>citation
  • To look back over in order to correct or edit; to revise.
  • (obsolete) To view or see again; to look back on.
  • * 1610–11 , (William Shakespeare), '', act IV, scene iv, in ''The Works of Mr. ''William Shake?pear''; in Eight Volumes , volume II (1709), page 954:
  • Cam''[''illo'']   What I do next, ?hall be next to tell the King // Of this E?cape, and whither they are bound: // Wherein my hope is, I ?hall ?o prevail, // To force him after: in who?e company // I ?hall review ''Sicilia ; for who?e ?ight, // I have a Woman’s Longing.
  • (obsolete) To retrace; to go over again.
  • * 1726 , (Alexander Pope) (translator), (Homer) (author), (Odyssey)'', book III, lines 127–128, in ''The Ody??ey of Homer , volume I (1760), page 113:
  • Shall I the long, laborious ?cene review , // And open all the wounds of Greece anew?

    See also

    * revise (v.)

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    opinion

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A belief that a person has formed about a topic or issue.
  • I would like to know your opinions on the new systems.
    In my opinion , white chocolate is better than milk chocolate.
    Every man is a fool in some man's opinion .
    Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived. -
  • The judgment or sentiment which the mind forms of persons or things; estimation.
  • * 1606 , , I. vii. 32:
  • I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people.
  • * South
  • Friendship gives a man a peculiar right and claim to the good opinion of his friend.
  • (obsolete) Favorable estimation; hence, consideration; reputation; fame; public sentiment or esteem.
  • * 1597 , , V. iv. 47:
  • Thou hast redeemed thy lost opinion .
  • * Milton
  • This gained Agricola much opinion , who enterprises.
  • (obsolete) Obstinacy in holding to one's belief or impression; opiniativeness; conceitedness.
  • * 1590 , , V. i. 5:
  • Your reasons at / dinner have been sharp and sententious, pleasant / without scurrility, witty without affection, audacious / without impudency, learned without opinion , and / strange without heresy.
  • The formal decision, or expression of views, of a judge, an umpire, a doctor, or other party officially called upon to consider and decide upon a matter or point submitted.
  • (European Union law) a judicial opinion delivered by an Advocate General to the European Court of Justice where he or she proposes a legal solution to the cases for which the court is responsible
  • Derived terms

    * advisory opinion * be of the opinion * in my humble opinion/IMHO * in my opinion * in one's opinion * opinion poll * public opinion * scientific opinion * second opinion

    See also

    * fact

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic) To have or express as an opinion.
  • * 1658', But if (as some '''opinion ) King ''Ahasuerus'' were ''Artaxerxes Mnemon'' [...], our magnified ''Cyrus'' was his second Brother — Sir Thomas Browne, ''The Graden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 166)
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